SGT 201LC - Surgical Technology III Clinical Externship I

3.50 Credits, 10.50 Contact Hours (10.50 lab)

This is the Clinical Lab portion of SGT 201 . Assist surgical team members with daily perioperative duties of a student surgical technologist while under the direct supervision of a staff surgical technologist and a registered nurse. Includes analyzing and planning the surgical case; supplies, instrumentation, and equipment needed for the surgical procedure; scrub, gown, and glove for surgical procedures; function of instruments, supplies, and other items used in surgical procedures; operating room furniture and equipment, preparing the sterile field, operating room responsibilities, the needs of the sterile surgical team, sterile technique; and preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative case management.

Prerequisite(s): HIT 105 , PSY 101 , SGT 103 , and SGT 103LB
Corequisite(s): SGT 201 , and SGT 201LB
Information: Students must complete 120 cases over SGT 201LC and SGT 202LC . Thirty cases must be in general surgery; twenty of these cases must be in the first scrub role. Students are required to complete 90 cases in various surgical specialties; 60 of these cases must be in the first scrub role and evenly distributed among a minimum of 5 surgical specialties. Fifteen is the maximum number of cases that can be counted in any one surgical specialty. The student can complete a maximum of 10 diagnostic cases and 5 vaginal delivery cases that will count toward the maximum number of second scrub role cases. The maximum number of second scrub role cases is 10 in general surgery and 30 in specialty surgery. Observation of cases does not count toward the 120 required cases.